Gifted

August 17th, 2014

“Our Aunt Helen made these for the three of us and while I know she worked very hard on them, I was mortified. Thats me on the left. Im smiling but my eyes are red from crying because I didnt want to wear it. The compromise was that I didn’t have to wear the bonnet. I don’t have much of a fashion sense but even then, at a tender young age, I knew this was wrong, very wrong.”

Well, of COURSE you were mad! She totally screwed up on the top part. Your sister’s dresden plates were centered and pretty and yours was chopped in half! It’s like she did theirs and got to yours and just phoned it in!

Hahahaha! Oh goodness, I feel your pain girl. My step-dad’s mother used to make us THE most godawful things like this to wear in the eighties. Dresses with pinefores (spelling?) floor length scarlett o’hara skirts, puff paint extravaganzas, patchwork skirts, homemade Jams (the shorts, not preserves…lol)….etc….

I don’t know. I think the bonnet really make the outfit work. Without the bonnet you’re just half-assing it. Only when you don the bonnet does it become clear that you’re not just wearing a repurposed quilt, but have totally bought into whatever cult/religion that your sisters have apparently joined.